When Artificial Intelligence Meets Big Data

"Gone are the days of data engineers manually copying data around again and again, delivering datasets weeks after a data scientist requests it"-these are Steven Mih's words about the revolution that artificial intelligence is bringing about, in the scary world of big data. By the time the term "big data" was coined, data had already accumulated massively with no means of handling it properly. In 1880, the US Census Bureau estimated that it would take eight years to process the data it received in that year's census. The government body also predicted that it would take more than 10 years to process the data it would receive in the following decade. Fortunately, in 1881, Herman Hollerith created the Hollerith Tabulating Machine, inspired by a train conductor's punch card.